Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and Morals Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent PersonsJames Philemon Holcombe D. Appleton, 1866 - 520 psl. |
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... This scene was what the Greeks beheld ( Pompeii , you know , was a Greek city ) . They lived in harmony with nature ; and the interstices of their Percy B. Shelley to T. L. P. - Pompeii . 18 AND TRAVEL IN LETTERS . 257.
... This scene was what the Greeks beheld ( Pompeii , you know , was a Greek city ) . They lived in harmony with nature ; and the interstices of their Percy B. Shelley to T. L. P. - Pompeii . 18 AND TRAVEL IN LETTERS . 257.
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Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and ... James Philemon Holcombe Visos knygos peržiūra - 1866 |
Literature in Letters; or, manners, art, criticism, biography ... James P. HOLCOMBE Visos knygos peržiūra - 1866 |
Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and ... James Philemon Holcombe Visos knygos peržiūra - 1866 |
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